Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Powers represented at the Brussels Conference, while waiting last week for the Japanese Government to reply to the second invitation to join them in discussing the war in China (TIME, Nov. 15), were treated in the Belgian press to gratuitous coaching in Oriental psychology by the Japanese Ambassador to Belgium, Mr. Saburo Kurusu...
Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
...Foreign Office and brought back to Brussels a treaty giving Belgium an altogether different status in Europe*(TIME, April 5 et seq.). This act of state by the King eclipsed in importance anything his Cabinet or Premier have yet done and was fully approved afterward by the Belgian Parliament, press and public. Thus King George is to be honored in Buckingham Palace this week by a state visit from a constitutional sovereign whose powers are real...
...thing that bothered serious, 29-year-old Leo Calvin Rosten all the while he was working for a doctorate of political science & economy at the University of Chicago was the nation's lack of critical interest in the Washington press corps. It seemed ironic to Mr. Rosten that "we have been more concerned with the talents of men who incarcerate animals in public pounds, than with those of the men who have the license to disseminate information about the political order under which we live...